Top 100 Chancellor Quotes
#1. While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda.
Fred W. Friendly
#2. Any military man will tell you that the way to pull two divided groups together is to give them a common enemy. This is what Hitler did, when he came to power in 1933 as chancellor.
Jodi Picoult
#3. The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
Walter Ulbricht
#4. I can barely stay awake," Metias had told me after his first night shift. "Does she honestly think we can guard anything after pulling an all-nighter? I was so out of it today that the Colonies' Chancellor himself could've walked into Batalla Hall and I wouldn't have known it.
Marie Lu
#5. When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.
Richard Dawkins
#6. I wish,' said Lymond, 'it would try a major key sometimes.'
'Wind,' Chancellor said, 'is a melancholy creature.
Dorothy Dunnett
#7. The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.
Edmund Stoiber
#8. And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example,.
Angela Merkel
#9. The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.
Edward Grey
#10. I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.
Alastair Campbell
#11. At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.
Charlie Brooker
#12. British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
Nigel Farage
#13. No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.
Marek Belka
#14. Some people say 'what would happen if we had a Communist Chancellor of the Exchequer?' I would ask in reply, 'what would happen if he had a lot of Fascist or Mosleyite bank chairmen?' In that event it might be thought disadvantageous to have publicity.
Hugh Dalton
#15. No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Margaret Thatcher
#16. The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Nigel Lawson
#17. The German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, was one of the few authentic geniuses among nineteenth-century statesmen.
Niall Ferguson
#18. People still laugh at me in politics, they think I won't make it; but I think I will, after Harold Wilson, I will be your next Chancellor to become Prime Minister.
Imran Khan
#19. Imperial Navy had been in existence by that name for less than a decade, since Chancellor Palpatine put down the traitorous Jedi and transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire.
John Jackson Miller
#20. From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
William E. Gladstone
#21. Even Confined children deserve a chane of life. That's why there's a retrial on their eighteenth birthday.
- The Chancellor
You know none of them will be pardoned. We can't afford the resources -
-Vice Chancellor RHodes
Kass Morgan
#22. When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.
William Hague
#24. The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.
Denis Healey
#25. In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.
Wolfgang Schauble
#26. It's okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in front of a mirror all day long.
Margaret Thatcher
#27. People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.
Nicola Sturgeon
#28. The Russian contribution to peace in Ukraine is not sufficient. [German Chancellor commenting on 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea]
Angela Merkel
#29. When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.
Jesse Owens
#30. The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe's reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.
Patrick Rothfuss
#31. They're a nasty bunch of people. The Riot Club's sole purpose is to celebrate wealth, elitism, hedonism, and excess - just random acts of destruction and chauvinism, which is interesting because our Prime Minister, our Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Mayor of London were are a part of this club.
Max Irons
#32. For me what we need is a great deal of fiscal stimulus to show the UK is open for business. We need to upskill our workforce. I'm very much in tune with the work our chancellor is doing.
Andrea Leadsom
#33. Over the weekend it came out that the U.S. has been listening in on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone since 2002. At this point, I feel like the only world leader our government DOESN'T listen to is President Obama.
Jimmy Fallon
#34. This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.
Winston Churchill
#35. Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
George III
#36. I don't believe you are simply born with the ambition of becoming chancellor. But if you want to make a difference, if you enjoy putting ideas into practice, then the post of chancellor has to be the one presenting the biggest opportunity of all.
Angela Merkel
#37. I picked the Scholar's or the Chancellor's doors or - especially fun for me - the Timekeeper's, resetting his clock and timepieces? That had especially angered my father, but I'd only done it hoping it would create an extra hour in his day for me.
Mary E. Pearson
#38. Helmut, if I had known that one can make it to 90 on 60 cigarettes a day, I would have started smoking 30 years ago. [at Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's 90th birthday]
Henry Kissinger
#39. She released him and Kleitos rubbed his neck, glaring at the two guards outside her door.
"And you do nothing?" he demanded.
Demetrius shrugged. "Our orders are quite specific, Chancellor - " "Never mind!
G.A. Aiken
#40. Books are wonderful, aren't they?' she said to the vice-chancellor who concurred.
'At the risk of sounding like a piece of steak,' she said, 'they tenderise one.
Alan Bennett
#41. I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
George Osborne
#42. It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.
Jeanne Cooper
#43. State governor is certainly nothing to be sneered at! But I don't think that there are still limits here. A gay man could presumably also become chancellor.
Jens Spahn
#44. You have not yet discovered what happens to Russians at sea.'
'The same thing, I suppose, that happens to Englishmen,' Chancellor said. 'Scots, I take it, are immune.'
'To sarcasm, yes,' Lymond said.
Dorothy Dunnett
#45. Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor's office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.
Hilary Mantel
#46. The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.
Jay Carney
#47. We?' said Chancellor.
'I am lavishly paid,' Danny said, 'to think in the first person plural.
Dorothy Dunnett
#48. A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.
A.A. Gill
#49. It is too dangerous to meddle in the marriage of princes,' he muttered as he withdrew. Arundel made a joke at his expense, saying 'He lost his post as Chancellor that day, for the Queen had usurped it,' which drew wry laughter from the deputation.
Alison Weir
#50. Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it!
Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.
Michael Faraday
#51. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.
Edmund Phelps
#52. Did you tell anyone?"
"No. Neither did I tell anyone about the time you broke into the chancellor's office and used a three-century-old marble bust to open the door."
"How did you know that?"
"I know now.
Jonathan Renshaw
#53. Said the chancellor got a call from a man who's interested
Nina Lane
#54. [Vladimir] Putin wants to keep [Bashar] Assad in power and expand his own military base in Syria, whatever the cost. I even believe he has an interest in more and more people fleeing the country. The flow of refugees improves his negotiating position toward the West, including the German chancellor.
Garry Kasparov
#55. I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.
George Soros
#56. Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?
Robert Peel
#57. I've been president of Brown and chancellor of Vanderbilt, where they have very high completion rates.
Gordon Gee
#58. I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.
Gordon Gee
#59. What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.
Ed Balls
#60. No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.
George Osborne
#61. The stubborn stance of some European governments on the refugee question is a reprisal less aimed at Angela Merkel or (Vice Chancellor) Sigmar Gabriel than at certain people on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin.
Martin Schulz
#62. On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of spending further sums of money on it. I replied, entering fully into the matter, and giving my opinion that it was worthless.
George Biddell Airy
#63. Chancellor said, 'She is concerned for your future.'
'She is concerned for her dog and her cat,' Lymond said. 'It is a Somerville failing.
Dorothy Dunnett
#64. No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.
Nigel Lawson
#65. I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.
Samuel Johnson
#66. The vice chancellor announced that all evening classes were cancelled and everyone had to be indoors by 9 p.m. This did not make much sense to me, since the shooting happened in sparkling daylight
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#67. But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
Mandy Patinkin
#68. I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.
Gerhard Schroder
#69. Ah," he said in a tone of genial wisdom, "a chancellor is rather like a bidet. Everyone is pleased to have one, but no one knows quite what they are for." A chancellor is nominally the head of a university, but in practice has no role, no power, no purpose.
Bill Bryson
#70. Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.
David Cameron
#71. We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
Patrick Stewart
#72. When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'
Angela Merkel
#73. Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.
George Osborne
#74. In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.
Prince Philip
#75. Miss Chancellor would have been much happier if the movements she was interested in could have been carried on only by people she liked,and if revolutions, somehow, didn't always have to begin with one's self
with internal convulsions,sacrifices,executions.
Henry James
#76. Had I known that these legs were to carry a Lord Chancellor, I would have taken better care of them when I was a lad. Duke of Grafton
Barbara W. Tuchman
#77. It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these worlds from the top can be a wind sock for what might happen next.
Paul Rusesabagina
#78. They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
Patrick Carman
#79. I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead.
Barack Obama
#80. The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#81. In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.
John Chancellor
#82. If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.
Anna Chancellor
#83. Sir Henry fixed him with a keen eye.
'Odd name, Tom Skatt - eh?'
'Thats right'
'You don't think we could be related?'
Tom looked up at his great-great-great-uncle and smiled.
'I don't think so'
'No,' grinned Sir Henry no, of course not
Henry Chancellor
#84. ...they did not come down hard on Leone because she had murdered her lover. It was because her sister was a nun.
Chancellor Press
#86. When the word art gives you a sinking feeling, what's left for you in the real world?
Will Chancellor
#87. Who has known heights and depths shall not again Know peace - not as the calm heart knows
Low, ivied walls; a garden close;
And though he tread the humble ways of men
He shall not speak the common tongue again.
Wheston Chancellor Grove
#88. I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.
Anna Chancellor
#89. life, a blur of birth and death - birth and death being the only two moments of life in which we don't exist.
Will Chancellor
#90. I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
Anna Chancellor
#92. I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life.
Anna Chancellor
#93. I only have two fingers left.
I wrote the lies of my farewell with two fingers.
That is the truth.
We are evil.
They are kids.
We are evil.
James Dashner
#94. James Bond had very little to do with the navy at all: it was a convenient front. Bond was secret service from the start ...
Henry Chancellor
#95. There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.
Anna Chancellor
#96. I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.
Anna Chancellor
#97. I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.
Anna Chancellor
#98. My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
Anna Chancellor
#99. It was a nasty paradox: he had developed an aesthetic that drew him to significant art, but that same sensibility made him realize he could never do anything remotely significant.
Will Chancellor
#100. Anything could happen here and who would know? It was a new place to me, but timeless in its own right. Regn had never stood here. All these years since and we'd been so close to 'this' obscurity. Its hidden proximity is what disquieted.
Wheston Chancellor Grove
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